Cocksure blockbuster with a grainy digital image and a jokey juvenile narrative, revolving around good and bad extraterrestrial shape-shifting robots, light as air, loose as smoke, based (if you're too old to know) on a line of Hasbro toys: the merchandising precedes the movie. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh …
It's been over 30 years, but the Orson Welles completest in me actually has fond memories of seeing this in a theatre. If given the choice, one would certainly prefer this to the Michael Bay atrocity of the same name.
Michael Bay: evil genius. Example: subject a 17-year-old hottie to all manner of sexual shenanigans - camera shots between her thighs, guns thrust menacingly at her face, monster tongues wrapped around her leg, and then take the curse off it by giving us an overprotective daddy-hero (Mark Wahlberg) who tells …
The film opens with a bit of historical hogwash, suggesting that America’s Cold War Space Race was actually motivated by a crashed alien transport. The ship carries the technology to open a “space bridge,” by which instantaneous travel across the universe is possible. Everyone involved wants the tech, and the …
Autobots vs. Decepticons, Round Two, a blur of liquidy computer-generated metal (robot design by trash compactor) and a mass — no, a mess — of contradictions: apocalyptic pomposity and low comedy; heavy combat and light casualties; a too-fast pace that attains two and a half hours and total boredom (except …
Autobots vs. Decepticons, Round Two, a blur of liquidy computer-generated metal (robot design by trash compactor) and a mass — no, a mess — of contradictions: apocalyptic pomposity and low comedy; heavy combat and light casualties; a too-fast pace that attains two and a half hours and total boredom (except …
Michael Bay was at one point considering a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds. Another Transformers sequel doesn't sound so bad when one considers the alternative.
Michael Bay was at one point considering a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds. Another Transformers sequel doesn't sound so bad when one considers the alternative.
Michael Bay was at one point considering a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds. Another Transformers sequel doesn't sound so bad when one considers the alternative.